July 26, 2019
Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a permit that the ACP needs to continue construction
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July 22, 2019
Today, the Power Past Fracked Gas coalition expressed its deep disappointment in the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) preliminary approval of the Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Tacoma LNG facility.
July 9, 2019
A new report released today highlights the reputational damage that would plague any bank or investor that supports three fracked gas export terminals proposed for Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
July 9, 2019
Advocates for a Cleaner Tacoma filed a lawsuit today challenging the Washington State Department of Ecology’s issuance of a key permit for Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) proposed fracked gas facility in the Port of Tacoma. The Sierra Club is supporting the legal challenge to the project as an “interested party.”
May 31, 2019
An administrative law judge is allowing Tampa Electric Company (TECO) to move forward with plans to burn fracked gas and more coal at their Tampa-area Big Bend plant.
May 30, 2019
In a newly discovered presentation to shareholders, NextDecade, the company behind the controversial proposed Rio Grande LNG export terminal and Rio Bravo pipeline, revealed that the company plans to export dramatically more fracked gas than it disclosed to federal regulators.
May 30, 2019
Just a day after the Department of Energy referred to fracked gas as “freedom gas” and announced its intent to push a “regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported,” the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has doubled down on that concept.
May 29, 2019
Trump DOE announced a commitment to “spreading freedom gas throughout the world” and its intent to push a “regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported.”
May 21, 2019
On Wednesday, May 22, members of the public plan to rally and pack the room at a “listening session” held by Puget Sound Energy (PSE) in opposition to the utility’s proposed 8 million gallon liquefied fracked gas storage facility in the Port of Tacoma.
May 17, 2019
Today, over 125 people on land and 50 people on water gathered at the “No Methanol Land and Water Action Community Camp-Out” opposing the proposed fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery in Kalama, WA. Speakers called on the Washington Department of Ecology to deny the project, and thanked Governor Inslee for his recent opposition to the project.
May 2, 2019
Today, clean energy groups Sierra Club, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, and Union of Concerned Scientists appealed the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC) approval to build the Nemadji Trail Energy Center gas power plant proposed for Superior, Wisconsin.
April 26, 2019
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Rio Grande LNG fracked gas export terminal and the 135 mile-long Rio Bravo Pipeline. Rio Grande LNG is one of three fracked gas export terminals proposed for the Rio Grande Valley, none of which have been approved.